AGW is a religion
Science based ideas are falsifiable, whereas religious ones are not (thanks Karl Popper). The acid test for climate scientists: "What evidence would convince you that carbon was not significant?" [...]
View ArticleClimate money: Monopoly science
The scientific process has become distorted. One side of a theory receives billions, but the other side is so poorly funded that auditing of that research is left as a community service project for...
View ArticleHelp! How do I know?
How do you tell a scientist from a non-scientist? Where does science end, and propaganda, politics, and opinion begin? You only need to know one thing: … … Straight away, this sorts the wheat from the...
View ArticleThe truth shall make you free
Art Robinson is a rare man. He’s risen above and laid bare the creeping failure in the infrastructure of modern science over the last 50 years. He describes how the control of the quest for knowledge...
View ArticleIs science a rigorous skill or just rote specialties?
Prof Garth Paltridge released Climate Caper a year ago. As a working atmospheric physicist, his description of the fall of modern science is as insightful as his descriptions of the physics of the...
View ArticleThe Truth Wears Off: Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
The New Yorker has such an interesting article it’s already generating discussion here, so it deserves a thread of it’s own. It describes a true modern paradox, namely that so many good studies can...
View ArticleThe Highest Authority in Science is the Data
Joint Post David Evans and Jo Nova “97 percent of climate experts say man-made global warming is a major threat” The correct response: “So? The satellites, ocean buoys, and weather balloons disagree.”...
View ArticleScientists behaving badly — more retractions are cheats, not mistakes
Who said scientific experts should be trusted? Is corruption endemic? Fully 43% of retractions in the life science and medical research journals are due to fraud or suspected fraud. Misconduct accounts...
View ArticlePeer Review failure: Science and Nature journals reject papers because they...
The peer review system has decayed to the point where the culture of the two “top” science journals virtually guarantees they will reject the most important research done today. It is the exact...
View ArticleConsensus Police: 101 “motivated” reasons not to be a skeptic
Skeptics are often accused of being ideologically motivated to find reasons to “deny” the threat posed by man-made Global Disruptification (or whatever it is now called). Which begs the question of...
View ArticleThe Climate Wars are Damaging Science
Matt Ridley has produced the shortest whole, killer summary of the sordid state of climate science, science journalism, and science associations for Quadrant magazine. This is the ideal...
View ArticleRCT study shows parachutes make no difference when jumping from aircraft
Sometimes Randomized Controlled Trials are not the golden trophies of science that some say they are. (Like yesterday’s Ivermectin study). While some say that nothing less than an RCT will do,...
View ArticleIt’s official: Everywhere in science there’s a mysterious lack of...
By Jo Nova (and UPDATED) Across all branches of science, new ideas that reset the paradigms have quietly vanished The spark never started in the star-ideas that should have shone, and we find ourselves...
View ArticleThe largest scientific experiment in history was Peer Review itself and it...
By Jo Nova Peer Review has been a sixty year experiment with no control group It’s touted as the “gold standard” of science, yet the evidence shows Peer Review is an abject failure. There are 30,000...
View ArticleNew study of consensus entrails shows 67% of papers don’t accept...
By Jo Nova A new paper tries to clean up the chicken entrail decrees of Mark Lynas (and earlier of John Cook) and concludes that their methodology is so bad, a 99.85% consensus could just as easily...
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